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Dr Coyle Has Been Added to ARMS in its Last Update

Well, it’s update time for ARMS again! Yep, just a few weeks after Misango and Springtron were added to the game, ARMS Laboratory director Dr Coyle has been added as playable too! Here’s a trailer showing her in action:

As you can see, she’s an… interesting fighter. For one, she completely forgoes the idea of gravity, floating around and merely rising up instead of jumping.

This plus her invisibility/teleporting tricks, makes her something closer to a Kirby boss than a traditional fighting game character, and differentiates her quite well from everyone else in the game.

Yep, after this, that’s it for new fighters and mechanics in ARMS. You’ll get a few patches, likely some balance updates and other small extras, but the days of regular updates have drawn to a close.

And that’s kind of disappointing really. Remember, ARMS had quite a few unused characters listed in its code. Like say, the mysterious plant themed fighter hinted at a while back. Or the others from the datamine with the codenames Chain, Scroll and Sumo. All of those never seemed to get made into playable characters, despite it clearly being planned.

Were they scrapped? Did Nintendo decide to move on from ARMS a bit early for whatever reason?

It’s honestly hard to tell.

Still, at least Dr Coyle is a fantastic new character, and perhaps the best fighter ARMS could have hoped for. She’s got a great design, interesting mechanics, fun to use attacks and generally everything players could want from a new character. So even if ARMS going out after five updates wasn’t intended, at least the game did go out on a high note.

But hey, what do you think about it? Are you happy with Dr Coyle as a character? Saddened the game won’t be receiving any updates?